The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-18
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

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ter of Edward Eggleston. will illustrate
her fathers novel, 1.-The Graysons" in
the Century.
MRs. WHITNEY. wife of the Secretary
of the Navy. is said to intend estab-
fishing a school for the training of do
nestle servants in New York, and to be
in correspondence with Miss Juliet
Corson about it.
Mrs. WILLIAM MIxTEE, of Hard
wick, Mass. has purchased site for
the high school building and given it
to the town. Thus the Scripture is
fulfilled which says of the good
woman, "Shc considereth . field and
buyeth it."
/ FRANCES POWER CoBBE. in addition
to Il great amount of time spent in
philanthropic work. has during the
| last twenty-five years written fifteen
books and about twenty-five pamphlets.
besides many articles for newspapers
and magazines.
Mrs. DR. BURNSIDE has been nomi-
mated for Superintendent of Education
by the Prohibitionis.s of Buffalo. N. Y.
| She is the first woman ever nominated
for political Office in Buffalo, and the
! Ereni,g Ne,cs says she would fill the
| position lis well as half the men in the
| city.
Lillian WHITNEY says of the woman
suffrage reception to Miss Willard:
..Boston society hOnored itself i'm its
social honors paid her in its reception
ut the Brunswick, and this incident in
the social panorama suggests anew the
enlarged views of the general public in
the truer appreciation this age is Civ
ing to the finer qualities that make for
| Righteousness"
Mrs. A. NJ. DIAz has just returned
from trip in New York. during which
she lectured at Syracuse, Buffalo and
Auburn, on her fayorite subject OF
"Women's Unions" 1t is her wish
that union might be established in
every large city, so that women find
ing themselves strangers in a strange
place might have place to go to for
information, protection and friendly
advice.
Miss FLORENCE MACNAGnTON, Of
Bushmills. in the north of Ireland,
lately tried to persuade fisherman to
sign the pledge. He said he would do
so if she would swim across the bay
from Blackjack to Port Ballantree, a
distance of about mile. The young
lady accepted the challenge, and ac-
complished the swim in thirty-nine
minutes. The fisherman now wears
the blue ribbon.
SIGNORA CRIsPI. the wife of the Ital-
ian Minister to England. is much inter.
ested in the education of her country.
women. Feeling how useful Il friendly
intercourse with foreign ladies would
be, she means to establish in Rome an
International Ladies Club. where WON.
| en- of all nations can meet. A reading.
room will be opened and lectures given.
and discussions held rs to the best mean:
for establishing industrial schools and
schools of technical instruction for
| women.
Mrs. S. B. MAXWELL. State Libra.
rian of Iowa, makes the following sen.
siblc suggestion. among others, in her
biennial report to the Governor: lone
important need is strips of mating
from door to door and from end to
end of the library. To nervous
persons and those unaccustomed tC
studying in public. the tread of the va
riety of boots and shoes. from the
squeaking tenor to the profound bass.
o. the constant string of visitors and
sight-seers, is very distracting.
MADAME ZAMPINI SALAzARO. editor
of the Italian magazine, Rasscgna
deJH Interest Femn,inili, pays
tribute to the late President of Coun-
Gil, Agostino Depretis. for the services
to til. woman's cause in Italy. 1t the
projected communal and provincial
legislation which bore his name. he
proposes to give women the admins
trative vote on the same terms rs
men. The Englishwoman's Reuiem
says: .'Let us trust that his success
sors will be as iberal-minded in this
respect, and that such law may be
passed"
WOMEN need the ballot, not because
they are angels, but because they
are one-half the human race. II
women vote. they will often vote ig.
norantly or angrily or selfishly, as
men do; and they have the same right
to commit these errorv and to learn by
them. For self-protection, for justice.
for the consistency of our political
principles. they have a right to the
ballot. If a pair of sissOrs breaks
apart, we have it riveted again; not
because either half possesses angelic
superiority over the other. but because
it takes two halves to make whole.
II W. Higginson,
FRANCES WILLARD says: cit is a
curious fact. but in no non-co-educa-
tionh college-town of which l hear,
does the w. C. T.. U. flourish;
while co-educatiOnal schools, of no
matter how high grade. furnish con-
genial environment to our work. II
seems to be principle that the more
monastic college or church may
be. the less hospitality of thought has
it for progressive movements, es-
pecially among women. Hence it is,
in these college towns and churches.
that we are seldom asked to speak, OF
helped to found a society which, in the
humble judgment of White RibbOners,